The freeze and binary-alpha
[ I meant to send this mail yesterday, but the need for sleep defeated
my feeble defences ]
Hi,
We (Richard and I) have decided to try and freeze the alpha
architecture, since Guy seems to be busy. We're new to this and
that's our excuse if things break horribly :-)
Anyway, there are two issues involved with freezing the alpha that
y'all need told about. First up, is that, alpha people are going to
have to stop compiling out of Incoming. I don't think this is a good
idea at the best of times, but now, it's definitely not. If Joe
Porter picks up package foobaz from Incoming which is destined for
`frozen unstable' and compiles it and dumps the result in Incoming,
under the current system, it will be auto-installed into frozen and
unstable by dinstall (This is a Good thing, neither Brian or the other
porters for frozen architectures want Brian to have to needlessly okay
non-source uploads to frozen). However, if Brian later rejects foobaz
for frozen as a gratuitous upload and installs it only into unstable,
source&&i386 and alpha will be out of sync. Badness. So, please,
either don't compile out of Incoming, or if you must then *only* take
packages which are not for frozen.
Second; due to the late stage at which alpha is being frozen, alpha's
sid is out of sync with slink. Luckily, this is easy to detect
(\begin{pimp}with quinn diff, of course\end{pimp}) and fix. The fix
is not pleasant though; basically we have to remove all `too new'
packages from sid when it becomes slink, you guys can then recompile
them for potato. Sorry, if I knew a better way, I would use it. The
list of relevant packages is appended to this mail.
Sparc is next if any sparc'ers are reading this list.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Update:
The freeze was done yesterday and seemed to have worked, and probably
would have, were it not for one small but critical permissions
problem. Also potato wasn't done right (specifically: binary-all
links weren't all there and t1utils wasn't in potato), but anyway it's
all fixed now and mirrors should be getting the fully correct
*/*/binary-alpha/ tonight. I hope.
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The following packages have been moved to potato because they don't
exist as source packages in slink:
[The `uncompiled' refers to the package's status on i386; I got this
list by running quinn diff with the Packages files for the primary and
secondary architecture reversed]
[Arch: all]
mail/flim_1:1.12.2-1.dsc [optional:uncompiled]
non-free/text/dict-web1913_1.4a-1.dsc [optional:uncompiled]
news/post-faq_0.10-1.dsc [optional:uncompiled]
editors/apel_9.11-1.dsc [optional:uncompiled]
doc/gtk+-docs_0.1998.10.30-3.dsc [optional:uncompiled]
mail/semi_1.11.0-1.dsc [optional:uncompiled]
mail/wemi_1.11.0-1.dsc [optional:uncompiled]
doc/fhist_1.4-1.dsc [extra:uncompiled]
[Arch: alpha]
text/t1utils_1.2.dsc [optional:uncompiled]
The following packages have been removed because they're binaries
compiled from source in potato, not slink:
OLDER: devel/f2c_19971204-3.dsc [optional] (Is 19971204-5 on secondary)
OLDER: graphics/xpaint_2.5.1-2.dsc [optional:X] (Is 2.5.1-3 on secondary)
OLDER: utils/sysutils_1.3.2.dsc [optional] (Is 1.3.3 on secondary)
OLDER: net/linpopup_0.9.3.pre4-1.dsc [optional:X] (Is 0.9.4-1 on secondary)
OLDER: devel/binutils_2.9.1.0.15-2.1.dsc [standard] (Is 2.9.1.0.15-4 on secondary)
OLDER: sound/sound-recorder_0.05-3.dsc [extra] (Is 0.05-4 on secondary)
OLDER: devel/cons_1.1-2.dsc [optional] (Is 1.1-3 on secondary)
OLDER: mail/elm-me+_2.4pl25ME+48-2.dsc [standard] (Is 2.4pl25ME+50-1 on secondary)
I chose to remove the above, rather than punt them to potato, because
otherwise you'll have to recompile them and kludge the .changes file
to say `frozen' (as opposed to `unstable'). However if you want them
in unstable, just say, as I kept them around in case you did.
{More updates: cons seems to be a weird package; in frozen it's Arch:
any, in unstable, it's Arch: all. It's maintainer is also an Alpha
person anyway, I just noticed. John, please upload a fixed cons to
frozen or someone will have to upload a cons for frozen only for alpha
and sparc.}
--
James
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